My Pictures
Stunning Costa Rica (front row; in red
shirt)
In the Rain Forest of Costa
Rica
With a Strangler Fig in Peru
Standing
in front of a Buttress Root
on my first trip to Peru
My
First Macaw; McGee!
First Trio: McGoo, Matilda, & Chico
My gorgeous Hyacinth Macaw Malia & friend
Come Fly With Me!
Angel
Peek-A-Boo!
In the
Classroom: Matilda, McGee, McGoo, & Angel
MY PUP MAX
McGoo takes a crack at penmanship in my first-grade
classroom!
Acceptance
Does not warp
or shape
Or wrench a
person
To be anything
other
Than what they
are.
It simply
opens its arms
To
the weary,
Opens its
heart to her
The broken,
And opens its
mind
To see the
invisible.
Then, in the
shelter
Of acceptance,
A person can
be free
To be even
something more.
-Joan Chittister
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